Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the gist of a Royal Decree at which robed and bearded members of Afghanistan's Parliament trembled, submissive but indignant. Meekly they obeyed...
Suavely King Amanullah addressed the 700. A despot, he can charm with honeyed words. He did. Perspiring patriarchs ceased to wriggle in their pants, succumbed to royal blandishments, beamed when King Amanullah implied that their high destiny is to make Afghanistan pants-conscious...
After the War, Augustus John was an artist of great personal as well as esthetic eclat. He was elected to the Royal Academy whereupon he increased his reputation for daring independence by sending a picture to the Academy Exhibition which he followed up with this remark: "I never asked them to admit me. I never sent them a picture until after they elected...
...properly elated by his election to the Royal Academy, Augustus John was certainly disgusted by another incident which likewise did much to enlarge his fame. He had painted a picture of famed Lord Leverhulme, soap tycoon. When Lord Leverhulme went to put this portrait in his safe, he found that the canvas was too big to fit. Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John...
...John Lavery's portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...